Will Trump Wipe Out Obama's Opening to Cuba?

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by: Joshua Keating

Donald Trump’s initial response to the death of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro was a factually correct but not quite presidential tweet:

Fidel Castro is dead!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2016
After taking some time to digest this news, Trump followed up with a pledge to get a “better deal” from Cuba than

Comments

[blackjedii]

Nah dude he his children his blind trust someone gonna open a Trump hotel down there!!

[shahar]

I am more worried about Iran than Cuba. I didn't realize that George W. Bush killed a deal Clinton made with North Korea as he came into office, which ended in a nuclear North Korea. As an Iranian-American, I wouldn't want the same thing to happen with Iran.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/15/502061437/will-iran-deal-meet-the-same-fate-as-a-past-u-s-north-korean-arms-deal

[blackjedii]

Yep. I know quite a few Iranians now and they always kind of tiptoe around telling you they're from the country.

TBH... I would have been worried about Iran from either candidate winning. Given how Clinton salivated over Netanyahu and "protecting Jerusalem" and that the Prime Minister is so war-happy it terrifies his own cabinet... I think we would have been going into a Middle Eastern war sooner rather than later. :(

[shahar]

Yeah, my biggest issue was with Clinton's foreign policy stance. I know it depends on who Trump picks for SOS, but he wants to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which implies he is know friend of the non-Israeli Middle East either.

Bannon was also a special guest at the Zionist Foundation of America's annual dinner, but ended up not going. I think because of protests from the public and the Anti-Defamation League, who commented that the event was being politicized with his presence. I think the idea of zionism is very much entrenched in the politics of Israel and Palestine, so I didn't quite get their comment.